The BBC website reports here on the new railway station and control tower at Southend Airport. They have a video….
It’s the first new railway station in Essex this century!
Have any onlineFOCUS readers used it yet?
The BBC website reports here on the new railway station and control tower at Southend Airport. They have a video….
It’s the first new railway station in Essex this century!
Have any onlineFOCUS readers used it yet?
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Can members of the public walk straight into, or out of, this station? Visiting the airport web site and from press releases it seems to me that a shuttle bus currently transfers passengers, presumably to the old air terminal. All very vague at the moment.
Trains were timetabled to stop at the airport station from the start of the summer timetable, but as it wasn’t ready to be opened until Monday a shuttle bus was in operation (seemingly only to meet scheduled take-offs and landings) from Rochford to the airport. I believe the ticket office at the airport was also closed as each evening there was a queue of passengers from the shuttle bus being sold tickets by a Stobart man at the self service ticket machine.
Members of the public can walk straight into and out of the station and it seems it is already being used by some commuters. You can only access it from the road that goes around the back of the retail park (PC World etc. and then goes to the car park. I am unsure as to whether or not Stobart are using a shuttle bus to ferry airport passengers to the old terminal until the new terminal opens as its still some distance away.
I have still not used it, but have got the train past it more than once already. The doors definately open.
It was my understanding that a shuttle bus was still to be used to ensure that the airport had the fastest platform to plane time in the country. Although having typed that I feel like I have swallowed a Stobart press release.
There is significant controvercy about a path between Rochford Ward (the Anne Bolleyn estate) and the station. Many residents have concerns about long term parking. However it would seem somewhat silly not to have a path at all. There is currently no planning permission granted for a public path. But if somebody does not get their act together people will begin to form one of their own accord anyway. I think the council should have planned ahead slightly better and ensured a path whilst protecting residents parking.
A solution would be no parking on the street between 20:00-21:00 Wednesday and 08:00-09:00 on a Saturday. Then locating the owner of the plot of land and look into a path. Sorry for the lengthy reply.
Sean & Rob. Thanks for the explanations. All mainly as I expected apart from the pedestrian route behind the retail park which I did not know about.
A solution would be no parking on the street between 20:00-21:00 Wednesday and 08:00-09:00 on a Saturday. Then locating the owner of the plot of land and look into a path.
On my first read, I thought you were mad – a look at the Rayleigh Station car parks would show that both the commuters are long gone by those times and non-existant on a Saturday, but then I realised you were talking about holidaymakers rather than commuters. I think commuters are more the problem that people were worried about!